On Thursday 2013-08-08 20:43, Linda Walsh wrote:
Does the automounter support fallback on failures?
I guess not.
like if there was no CIFS host at //server, but there was an NFS host, could it fall back to NFS if CIFS was not found?
But primarily and up-front -- how can I have '//' be a lookup for network file systems?
You cannot. NFS syntax is host:/path, not //host/path.
(it is my understanding that POSIX requires that //pathname is not presumed to be identical to /pathname, even though ///pathname can be (multiple slashes are usually collapsible, with the exception of double slashes at the beginning of the path.
Whatever posix mandates has no relevance for special mounts that use a helper and are non-local (NFS, CIFS, FUSE, are such). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org